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Work on What’s in Your Head Before You Jump Into Bed!

The emotional current of the relationship will certainly affect what’s happening in the bedroom, so it’s important for partners to stay connected, even if it’s through household activities.

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Don’t Let Your Kids Extinguish Your Marital Flame

Parents with a strong, loving relationship with one another are better equipped to handle the stress and conflict that naturally seem to arise from having children. The kids benefit from the strength of this relationship as well.

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Is Society Opening Up to the Idea of Open Marriages?

The hit reality television show Sister Wives brought the taboo topic of polygamy to the forefront of water cooler conversations throughout the country when it introduced a polygamous family that seemed to thrive. Contrary to what most people assumed would cause jealousy and insecurity in an intimate relationship, the wives and husband on the show appeared to have a deep bond of open communication and trust often missing from many monogamous relationships. The children of the different wives, some related by blood and others only by marriage, also appeared to be fully accepting of and relatively unharmed by the untraditional …(See More)

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Education Leads to Higher Levels of Marriage and Better Parenting

Parental involvement, especially by fathers, is higher when parents are married and the father and mother live together, according to a recent study. Fathers who are more highly educated and employed also are more involved with their children.

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How to Get Through “The Poorer” of “For Richer and for Poorer”

When financially times get tough in a marriage, it becomes especially important to keep the lines of communication open and maintain regular contact with your partner.

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Marriage Changes Us From the Inside Out

The first bond between mother and child creates a blueprint for harmony, and all future relationships are based on this first impression. Supportive, loving relationships result in positive brain functioning and better mental and physical health.

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Healthy Disagreements Are Actually Good for Your Relationship

Respectful, healthy airing of differences helps keep issues from becoming major obstacles and provides a model for children of how to discuss problems as they arise.

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Children and Parents Benefit when Couples Put Their Marriage First

Couples often put their marriage on the back burner when they have children. Although children should never be neglected, making your marriage the priority can benefit the entire family. In a recent article, Linda and Charlie Bloom, licensed marriage counselors and psychotherapists, explain why it is important to elevate the marital bond, especially when there are children involved. “When one or both partners make their children’s happiness a higher priority than the health of their marriage, they run the risk of neglecting the needs of the marriage, and in doing so, fostering feelings of resentment, neglect, resignation, and alienation in …(See More)

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How to Maintain a Successful Midlife Marriage – 4 Relationship Myths

Vivian Diller, Ph.D., psychologist and author of a recent article, attributes many reasons to the success of her 25 year marriage, but emphasizes, “Most of all, our optimism is the result of keeping ‘Marital Myths’ from interfering with realistic love.” Diller says, of the popular myths in which many couples place their marital faith, “Believe these myths and you may see even the strongest relationships head toward failure by age fifty. Face the truths behind them and your relationship has a greater chance to make it through midlife and beyond.” The first myth, according to Diller, is that a couple …(See More)

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Dual Parent Households Benefit Children and Parents

Philip Cowan, an investigator in the “Supporting Father Involvement Project,” and psychologist at the University of California Berkeley, has been working with his wife for over three decades to help parents “be the kind of spouses and parents they want to be.” In their most recent research, they reveal that teamwork among parents has the most benefit for the child’s social development and academic achievement. Additionally, two parent households report the highest level of relationship satisfaction between partners. The project, funded by the California Office of Child Abuse Prevention, is based on data gathered from clinical trials and couples and …(See More)

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